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New SUVs offset UK drag on Europe car sales

Bloomberg New sport utility vehicles like the Peugeot 5008 and a jump in demand in France helped revive European car sales in October, offsetting another month of consumer unease in the UK on big-ticket purchases. Registrations rose 5.9 percent from a year earlier to 1.21 million vehicles, the Brussels-based European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, or ACEA, said in a statement. This ...

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US Thanksgiving travel to jump in 12 years

Bloomberg US Thanksgiving travel will jump to the highest level since 2005 boosted by a stronger economy, even as gasoline prices will be higher than a year earlier. About 50.9 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home for the November 22-November 26 holiday period, the ninth consecutive increase and a 3.3 percent jump over a year earlier, ...

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Climate envoys step up pace of work without Trump support

Bloomberg Envoys from almost 200 nations agreed to step up the pace of their work on reining in global warming even without additional help from the world’s richest polluter. Two weeks of discussions organised by the United Nations concluded, after talks were delayed by a grammatical error in the draft text. The delegates, drawn from energy and environment ministries set ...

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